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Re: [Birth Control] Abnormal bleeding
From: Abbie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:41:59 -0600 (CST)
Jill,
At age 23 I began the same thing. I'm currently 25 and still dealing
with it. It all started when I went off Ortho Tricylen for a few
months...I think getting back on it screwed up my hormones. (when I'm
not on the pill I don't get my period...so I'm the other way around). I
tried OrthoNovum...no luck, and right now I just started using Yasmin -
first month...no luck. I lift weights, and am very active. I noticed
that this started (along with getting back on the pill), when my bodyfat
started to decline due to weightlifting. I've talked to other women who
said they had eating disorders that caused this, when they started
eating 'normal' again they were fine. However, I don't have an eating
disorder and I eat extremely healthy. If you ever find something that
helps, or discover what the cause is I would love to know. As all of my
paps, etc. have always come back completely normal, and doctors don't
seem worried about it.
Thanks,
abbie
At Sat, 26 Jan 2002, jill wrote:
>
>Hello! I am at my wits end and i hope that someone can help me. In the
>fall of 200, I began to have stange spotting/bleeding about halfway
>through my cycle. I had always had pretty much regular periods... I
>was only 23 at the time. I had been on birth control before, so I
>figured that I would go to my family phystician and get back on it and
>that it would fix my problem. Well, my doctor thought the same thing.
>He put me on loestrin, I believe. I tried it for a couple cycles and it
>didn't have any effect on the problem. Then he put my on ortho novum.
>Again, my hopes were up and I tried it, and still -- the exact thing
>happened. It was like clockwork. On the 10-12th days, the spotting
>would begin and continue until i started the inert pills and I would
>have a regualar period. I got frustrated with my family doctor, so I
>went to an obgyn that came highly recommended from a friend. He decided
>to put me on Ovcon 50 for 3 months, then he was going to take me down to
>35's once my cycle was under control. Same thing happened as before so
>I went back. He gave me internal ultrasound, put me on prenatal
>vitamins, gave me folic acid, a round of antibiotics, Hope cream for my
>cervix (because he said that the cervix was very tender and would bleed
>at the touch). None of this worked. He decided to do a D&C and a
>hysteroscopy... again telling me that nothing was wrong pathologically.
>I kept telling the doctors that I thought it had to be hormonal because
>there is a definite pattern to it and I can tell you almost exactly when
>it will start each month. He then did a light cryofreeze-- didn't work.
>Then a longer, more intense freeze -- didn't work. I endured weeks of
>thethe horrid watery discharge. Meanwhile I was still on the ovcon
>35's. I gave the cryo the six week recovery time hoping that something
>would happen and I would be fixed. Nope. I went back to the doctor and
>talked with him more about the exact timing of my problem -- that it was
>happening when I was off the bill and on the pill... that I thought
>perhaps when I ovulated that maybe that was when my bleeding was
>beginning. So -- he decides to try me on Yasmine. I had already taken
>the first 5 days of my ovcon 35 pack and he told me to immediately start
>the Yasmine. I thought that I was cured!! My discharge was normal for
>16 days this month!! Then my hopes crashed again, when on day 16 I began
>to bleed. I don't know what 's going on. It's been almost a year and a
>half now of the same thing. My relationship with my boyfriend is
>strained (except for the first 10 days of the month usually), I feel
>like I am fighting depression over this, I am scard that I won't be able
>to have children, and I am frustrated that I can't find a doctor that
>can help me... or seems to truly care about my problem. I have made an
>appointment to see an obgyn that is also a reproductive
>endocrinologist... but am losing hope. I think that the fact that I
>made it to day 16 says that the bleeding is definitely hormone related.
>BUt there are so many pills -- what if they never find the right one. I
>can't live like this forever. Please email if you have any imput. Since
>it was happening before I ever got on the pill, I don't have the option
>to just quit taking the pill. It won't do me any good. Thanks for any
>help...
>
>--
>jill
>
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